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BERLIN AND JERUSALEM (CNN)Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that the problem caused by Israel The '50 Holocaust' against deeply nervous Palestinians, which it said caused, sparked outrage from world leaders and a social media storm.
"From 1947 to the present day Israel has carried out 50 massacres in Palestinian villages and cities," Abbas said in Arabic, at a press conference in Berlin.・He stood next to Chancellor Scholz and spoke. “Fifty genocides, fifty Holocausts, and every day to this day there are victims killed by Israeli forces.” was asked if he apologized for the massacre in. A splinter group of Abbas' Fatah party, 11 Israeli athletes and coaches and his one West German policeman were killed after armed clashes.
His September of this year marks his 50th anniversary from the Munich attack.
"In the Holocaust he killed 6 million Jews, among them 1.5 million Jewish children. History will never forgive him." Hmm,” Rapid tweeted.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz described Abbas' words as "vile and false." "His statement is an attempt to distort and rewrite history," Gantz said.
Global figures also criticized the remark. Ambassador Deborah E. Lippstadt, the U.S. State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, described them as "unacceptable" and said, "Holocaust distortions can have dangerous consequences and foster anti-Semitism." There is," he added.
Abbas' staff tried to clarify his comments on Wednesday. "President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirms that the Holocaust is the most heinous crime in modern human history," read a statement from his office.
He added that his response was "not intended to deny the specificity of the Holocaust perpetrated in the last century, but condemned it in the strongest terms." "The crimes Abbas spoke of were the atrocities committed against Palestinians by the Israeli army since Nakba, and to this day the crimes have not stopped," the statement concluded. This was called a "catastrophe" by al-Naqba or the Palestinians after more than 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes or driven from their homes during the resulting Arab-Israeli war in 1948. refers to the Israeli establishment of
CNN's Abeer Salman and Amir Tal contributed to this report.
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- Background: Last week, EU officials told the US and Iran that they would "reinstate" a revived agreement to limit Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions. Relief sent what is called the final document. On Monday night, Iran responded to the proposal in writing in time for the deadline set by Brock. Iran's written response has not been made public, but the country's chief negotiator tweeted that a deal was closer than ever, but not yet completed. Tehran is seeking guarantees that a future US president will be compensated if he withdraws from the deal, a regional diplomat told CNN on Tuesday.
- Important Reason: An attempt by former President Donald Trump to revive a deal that was withdrawn in 2018 was brokered by the EU and Qatar. Negotiations between the United States and Iran to do so have been underway for months. Iran says the final deal must protect the country's rights and guarantee the lifting of sanctions. This could unlock tens of billions of dollars in oil and gas revenues to boost Iran's faltering economy. And with energy prices soaring in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a revival of the nuclear deal would bring prices down and more barrels into Europe.
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Mohammad Marandi, an adviser to the Iranian negotiating team and a professor at the University of Tehran, who is seeking assurances that Iran will not withdraw from the deal, told CNN's Becky Anderson:
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Advisor to Iran's negotiating team @s_m_marandi "Iran has a unique We want guarantees.” Where the Iranians can restart their enrichment program and get back to pre-deal status very quickly, the US will have an incentive to stay in the deal. pic.twitter.com/IKGt2rSw8W
— Becky Anderson (@BeckyCNN) Aug 16, 2022
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The state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported that an allegedly stolen work of art was found Saturday in the possession of three of him in Diyala province in central-eastern Iraq.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of involvement in drug trafficking and transportation, according to the Interior Ministry's Directorate General for Narcotic and Psychotropic Substance Control.
"Paintings by international painter Picasso have been seized and valued at millions of dollars," Colonel Bilal Sobi of the Anti-Drug Media Department said in a statement to his INA.
He added: "The drug trade is linked to many crimes, including murder, theft, kidnapping, rape, gang formation, corruption and family breakdown, all the way down to the antiquities trade." The linked raid was part of the ministry's ongoing security effort that began in July.
Details about the painting, its ownership history, and how it was authenticated have not yet been released.
Amarachi Orie, CNN